|
Lecturer(s)
|
-
Kolečková Zdena, prof. Mgr. Ph.D.
|
|
Course content
|
1. Constitution of technical image I (social, economic, philosophical conditions enabling the origin of photography). 2. Constitution of technical image I (physical and chemical principles of photography). 3. Camera obscura, Camera lucida, Laterna magica; discovery of heliography, "latent image", and first fixable photographic images. 4. Monsieur Daguerre and the others; forms of daguerreotype in European and American environments in the 1840s. 5. Sir Talbot; the duality principle of analog photographic negative - positive; calotype in British, especially Scottish, environments. 6. Timid photographic attempts to capture ongoing action; prenatal phase of photographic reportage, scientific illustration and social document. 7. Brilliancy of the "magicians" of wet collodion process - emergence of the "Transparent Look" phenomenon; mechanization and standardization of chemical-technological photographic processes. 8. A new view of the society on war; direct visual confrontation of an individual/spectator with motives of distant battlefields; contemporary conventions, social and media limits of the depiction of human suffering; the first war photographs, their journalistic reflection (the Crimean War, the American Civil War). 9. Nadar: portraitist - genius, experimenter, liberal, bon vivant, commander of balloon troops, friend of the Impressionists; comparison of Nadar's work with Carjat and other portraitists. 10. The Victorian World - British queen in photographic and film documents against the backdrop of changing epochs; her collection-building photographic activities and the circle of court photographers; family portraits and the CdV phenomenon. 11.-13. Beginnings of photography and cinematography in the Czech lands - presentation and analysis of student seminar papers based on their individual or group semester research task.
|
|
Learning activities and teaching methods
|
|
unspecified, unspecified
|
|
Learning outcomes
|
A series of lectures in which students become acquainted with physical (optical and mechanical), chemical, generally historical, social, economic, and philosophical conditions enabling the origin of photography and constitution of the photographic medium. Further, this cycle focuses on early development of photography (daguerreotype, talbotype and wet collodion process and its partial variations). An integral part of the semester plan content is also continual research activities of students and group public presentation of a selected topic at the end of the semester.
The gained capabilities constitute an encompassment and an aquirement of knowledge and experience in the given field of study, they result from a concrete annotation of the subject and are aimed at a profile´s fulfilment of the graduate of the given field of study.
|
|
Prerequisites
|
Successful completion of the previous study
|
|
Assessment methods and criteria
|
unspecified
Attendance
|
|
Recommended literature
|
-
Anděl, J. Česká fotografie 1840-1950. KANT, 2003.
-
Batchen, G. Obraz a diseminace. Za novou historii pro fotografii. AMU Praha, 2017.
-
Birgus, V.; Scheufler, P. Fotografie v českých zemích 1839-1999. Grada, 1999.
-
DVOŘÁK, Tomáš (ed.). Nadar. Když jsem byl fotografem. AMU Praha, 2018.
-
KOLEČKOVÁ, Zdena. La Chambre noire. FUD UJEP Ústí nad Labem, 2005.
-
Marien, Mary Warner. Photography, Laurence King Publishing. London, 2002.
-
Meisnerová, Zuzana; Scheufler, Pavel. Ateliér Langhans, Galerie osobností, Pro Langhans. Praha, 2000.
-
Rosenblum, Naomi. A World History of Photography. Abbeville Press, New York, 1989.
-
SCHEUFLER, Pavel. Osobnosti fotografie v českých zemích do roku 1918. AMU Praha, 2013.
|